#sensorium

[soulsoffairlight]

Tis the season to do shitposts ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra

[just-mikaruge]

"Being conscious is a torment The more we learn is the less we get Every answer contains a new quest A quest to non-existence, a journey with no end"

Sensorium - Epica

[replicantapologist]

The lyrics of Sensorium will never not hit hard.

[visual-oddities]

Aiming the spotlight at Vision's Eye

Poor Vision, unlike the real Ford he doesn't know the extent of Raz's tomfoolery.

[noneofthisisreal]

Schiaparelli's 'Lobster Skirt' - Spr/Sum 2024

[arcadebroke]

[ainshemart]

Vision

Long time not posting, coz I'm taking my time to pass Psychonauts 2 game. Love this game so much, especially the PSI Kings Sensorium

[cool-frog-hours]

Rip Harry DuBois, you would have loved Psychonauts

[oil-rigging]

Thinking about Helmut and how I feel like his character was influenced by isolation experiments but also how surprisingly well adjusted to those isolation experiments he was.

Maybe I’m still on my Psychic Six (Seven) kick (I totally am) but it’s honestly extremely important to me that Helmut didn’t remember exactly what any of his friends and husband looked like to the point where he mentally replaced their faces with things that he did have knowledge of at the time, which are his senses. Also, his perception of time slowing (or hastening?).

The sensorium only really came about after he’d inhabited the body of Nick Johnsmith from the Mail Room, and had suddenly been thrust into a new body with no preparation for how different the world is from his own little quiet place. I’m sure that between the time Raz first placed his brain in Nick’s body and when he actually formed the sensorium, Helmut figured a couple things out. Yes, the things in his face show him the world, the things on the side of his head give him sound, we see him licking things, etc. He even asserts, before we dive in once again, that he remembers the proper equipment used to dampen those senses; ‘A blindfold? Earplugs?’

I suppose that sort of comes with being a powerful and practiced psychic who has probably broken his mind countless times with the help of his buddies, that he becomes much more aware, much quicker than previous experiments simulating similar circumstances.

Like Michel Siffre, who isolated himself in a cave for, like, 180 days and came out in such a bad state that he was hallucinating, not speaking right, and had developed a permanent squint. His memories and sense of self, also, deteriorated. Sound familiar? The fact that Helmut had such a grasp on his motor functions after 20 years is frankly astounding.

I know it’s fictional but I’m allowed to tie real life findings into analysis of a game I like and no one can stop me. We’re coming back to Siffre in a moment.

It’s impressive to me that Helmut’s memories of his friends, husband, and even himself stayed somewhat intact in some points but not others. Like— he knew Bob liked plants. He gave Bob a hat with a potted plant on it. He knew what clothes his friends tended to wear. He knew Cassie’s hairstyle, and Ford’s. He just forgot their faces (which, historically, tend to be hard to remember), and his mind went; ‘well, these people are as integral to me as my ability to navigate the world around me, so I might as well represent them as one and the same’.

Back to Siffre. His study displayed that, without the ability to keep track of time passing, his body adjusted to a 25-hour cycle rather than a 24-hour one. Siffre said that five minutes felt like two minutes when he counted to 120 seconds, and thought that he had spent one less month underground.

Once again— sound familiar? Time means nothing to a man who was trapped in his own head for 20 years? Wasn’t he certain that he was left alone for a lot longer than he actually was? Maybe this is like Siffre counting to 120. Five minutes feels like two minutes. Longer stints of smaller time feels shorter, shorter stints of larger time feel longer. That last bit wasn’t actually proven or anything, I’m just trying to relate it to the concrete stuff I found.

I also think it’s really cool that the body’s internal clock is typically free running rather than set— between 24 and 25 rather than a strict 24, and some known mutations wherein some humans have a 23-hour cycle. One of the main influences of this is light, which Helmut wasn’t seeing, as he wasn’t seeing anything.

Anyways, sorry if all this is disjointed in any way, I just think it’s really cool that Helmut’s character and abilities might have been influenced by someone’s past studies on Michel Siffre or something like that. I have a quiz today anyway, which is unfortunately not about the body’s internal rhythms or the effects of Michel Siffre’s studies on space exploration and psychological communities, because I am an engineer, not a psychologist, and therefore any time I spend doing things I actually like (i.e. researching for this post) is time I spent not studying. But worry not, dear friends, I enjoy this infinitely more than I enjoy what I’m being quizzed on. Oiler, out!

[snakesweetie]

Jack Black's level in Psychonauts 2 was wild

[that-weird-skeleton-bastard]

I drew alternate outfits for Raz Psychonauts two!

inspired by @dailyraz 's post :P

Close-ups below! 👇🏼

i am very proud of myself for that Hollis' hot streak design

haha Joker card Raz go brrr

[capripian]

playing great god grove as a psychonauts fan is like. points at the hobbyhoo stage lighting puzzle. i've seen you before

[badlydrawnbeastcookies]

Incase this gets some creative gears going:

To mystic flour cookie: how does it feel to be the first playable beast cookie

To shadow milk cookie: how does it feel to not be the first to be playable beast cookie despite being the first to be revealed

"Of course I'd be the first. I'm better than him."

[stinklebug]

some pictures of some pretty places

[everydaym0nstrosity]

Here's a remix that I did in 2020 of Boards Of Canada's ROYGBIV.